Throughout the years since its release, this film periodically comes up in my recommendations. I tend to avoid films that look like they have an indie feel to them, because they’re usually too slow paced for my liking, and I’m not a fan of dull and subdued color palettes that are typical of such films. So I put off watching Better Days until now, because I thought it would be like those films.

On the third year of this movie, yet again being recommended to me, I finally gave in.

Thank you to all those who keep pushing this movie, and the AIs that serve it up lol. I honestly would have missed out on a gem. It definitely deserved all the awards it got.

I was totally hooked on the FL within the very first few minutes, and then the ML when he was introduced. How they’re both basically just kids, who are forced to grow up way too soon, with no adults or safety nets to help them. But luckily, they find each other and do their best to one day reach “Better Days”.

The emotional rollercoaster I went through watching this. The slow and steady rise in the first half, and then the twist and reveal in the second half of the film that broke my heart for both them, and had me dreading over what would happen next.

The ending is a marvelous work of art in storytelling. It’s after the credits. Don’t miss it, because I almost did.